Re: woody ignores my .emacs
<luc.lefebvre@mcgill.ca> writes:
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Henrik Enberg wrote:
>
>> <luc.lefebvre@mcgill.ca> writes:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have been using a .emacs file for a while and would like to keep on
>> > doing so. With my new Woody install emacs appears to be ignoring it. I
>> > have tried emacs -q, emacs -debug-init <to see if my .emacs was rejected
>> > because of some bug>, emacs -no-site-file, have added (setq
>> > inhibit-default-init), all to no avail.
>>
>> What happens if you do C-x C-f ~/.emacs? Do you get the correct file?
>>
>>
>
> When I do as you say, I get my .emacs file <which is not loaded at
> startup>...
Hmm, this is really strange. It sorta sounds like you $HOME variable is
screwy at the time you start Emacs, But I have no I dea what could
cause it.
What are the file permissions for ~/.emacs? I have 0644 FWIW.
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Booting... /vmemacs.el
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